In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writ...ing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946.... We went out on a double date and it turned out to be a fair evening for me. I seduced a g...irl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd take the bus downtown with my mother, and the big thing was to sit at the counter and get an orange drink and a tuna sandwich ...on toast. I thought I was living large!... When I was at the Ritz with the publisher a few months ago, I did think, "Oh my God, I'm in the Ritz tearoom." ... The person who was so happy to sit at the Woolworths counter is now sitting at the Ritz, listening to the harp, and wondering what tea to order.... [ellipsis in source] Am I awake?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant.... They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity--all I hope for in my clothes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a... sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish. For him the truncated process of creating will always be an interrupted act of love, and his style will bear the shame of it, the impoverishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »